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Paper Moon, Andrea Camilleri

Fri, 02/13/2009

Notes from the Purer Linguistic Sphere of Translation by Stephen Sartarelli:

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As Fazio started to fiddle with the drawer, Montalbano went into the living room. Catarella had turned on the laptop and was fiddling around himself. ‘Iss rilly difficult, Chief.'

‘Why?'

'Cause iss got the last word.'

Montalbano was befuddled. What? Can computers talk now? ‘Cat, what the hell are you saying?'

‘Iss like diss, Chief. When summon don't want summon to look at the poissonal tings he got inside, he gives it a lass word.'
Montalbano understood. ‘You mean a password?'

‘Ain't dat what I said? And if you don't got the lass word, y'can't get in.'

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